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http://www.businessinsider.com/atlanta-driller-mike-2016-9Atlanta is honoring one of its most famous rappers with an $11.6 million machinehttp://www.businessinsider.com/atlanta-driller-mike-2016-9
Thu, 22 Sep 2016 11:04:00 -0400Clinton Nguyen
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<p>Atlanta has a new tunnel borer, and thankfully it doesn't have a long, technical name.</p>
<p>Instead, it's called "Driller Mike," after Killer Mike, the popular rapper and proud Atlanta resident who makes up one half of hip-hop duo Run the Jewels.</p>
<p>On Wednesday, the City of Atlanta unveiled the 400-foot-long tunnel-boring machine, which will eventually drill out a 5 mile underground reservoir that's expected to hold 2.4 billion gallons of water — enough to sustain 1.2 million people for a month, <a href="http://www.ajc.com/news/local-govt--politics/driller-mike-help-city-water-supply/Xg0gXJzDtTQ756Xvh8aMLO/">according to The Atlanta Journal-Constitution</a>.</p>
<p>The city christened the $11.6 million machine "Driller Mike" at a ceremony at the Bellwood Quarry in northwest Atlanta. Killer Mike, who made news earlier this year for his <a href="http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/watch-killer-mikes-six-part-interview-with-bernie-sanders-20151215" target="_blank">strong support of Bernie Sanders</a>, joined officials at the unveiling.</p>
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Special thanks to <a href="https://twitter.com/KillerMike">@KillerMike</a> and his family, contest winner <a href="https://twitter.com/bschro3000">@bschro3000</a> &amp; <a href="https://twitter.com/ATLWatershed">@ATLWatershed</a> for a great event today. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/h2o4atl?src=hash">#h2o4atl</a> <a href="https://t.co/yTNPZsuzkz">pic.twitter.com/yTNPZsuzkz</a> </p>— City of Atlanta, GA (@Cityofatlanta) <a href="https://twitter.com/mims/statuses/778668869393092608">September 21, 2016</a>
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<p>"It was the funniest thing in the world to me. I didn't take it seriously, because I'm a rapper. Cities don't associate themselves with rappers," Killer Mike told the Associated Press. "But I'm a business owner, a dad, an active member of politics in Atlanta, so I was honestly honored that people in Atlanta saw fit to name something after me."</p>
<p>At the ceremony, the city also demonstrated the drill's 12-foot diamond head:</p>
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<p lang="en" dir="ltr">The new tunnel boring machine, "Driller Mike" named for Atlanta's own <a href="https://twitter.com/KillerMike">@KillerMike</a> is officially on! <a href="https://t.co/gziU7FT7ns">pic.twitter.com/gziU7FT7ns</a></p>— City of Atlanta, GA (@Cityofatlanta) <a href="https://twitter.com/Cityofatlanta/status/778609639076290560">September 21, 2016</a>
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<p>The $300 million drilling project will connect the <span>Bellwood Quarry</span> to the nearby Chattahoochee River and Hemphill Water Treatment Plant. The machine will create the deepest tunnel in the state, which is expected to be finished by the end of 2018.</p>
<p>The naming of the drill had been in the works for a while — earlier this year, <a href="http://www.ajc.com/news/local-govt--politics/driller-mike-help-city-water-supply/Xg0gXJzDtTQ756Xvh8aMLO/">The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported</a> that the city held an <a href="http://h2o4atl.com/name-our-tunnel-boring-machine-contact-us/">open submission for names</a>, which drew over 700 suggestions. The city narrowed it down to three options: "Peach Beast," "Scarlett," and "Driller Mike," which won the <a href="http://www.clatl.com/news/article/20830174/atlantas-tunnelboring-machine-could-be-named-after-killer-mike-so-make-it-happen">public vote</a>.</p><p><strong>SEE ALSO:&nbsp;<a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/donald-glover-interview-on-atlanta-2016-9" >Donald Glover talks about his new FX show: 'I just knew there was a hunger for Atlanta s--- like that'</a></strong></p>
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Thu, 07 Jul 2016 09:26:12 -0400Devan Joseph
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<p>Rapper 50 Cent filed for <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/50-cent-files-for-bankruptcy-2015-7">Chapter 11 bankruptcy on July 13, 2015</a>. A judge approved a plan to have him pay back creditors <a href="http://www.courant.com/news/connecticut/hc-50-cent-bankruptcy-hartford-0707-20160706-story.html">$23.4 million</a> over the next five years.</p>
<p>Watch the rise and fall of the hip-hop star. </p>
<p><em>Produced by <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/author/devan-joseph">Devan Joseph</a> </em></p>
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Fri, 26 Feb 2016 13:06:00 -0500Devan Joseph
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<p>Rapper 50 Cent filed for <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/50-cent-files-for-bankruptcy-2015-7">Chapter 11 bankruptcy on July 13, 2015</a>. The <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/justice-department-investigate-50-cent-bankruptcy-instagram-2016-2">Justice Department may soon launch an investigation</a> into his finances as he repeatedly flaunts cash on Instagram.</p>
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Tue, 09 Feb 2016 12:57:56 -0500Colin Campbell
<p><img style="float:right;" src="http://static2.businessinsider.com/image/56ba20432e52651c008b5fb1-1363-1022/screen shot 2016-02-09 at 12.16.20 pm.png" alt="Maria Bartiromo interviews Ghostface Killah" data-mce-source="Fox Business Network" data-mce-caption="Maria Bartiromo interviews Ghostface Killah." data-link="http://video.foxbusiness.com/v/4746775289001/ghostface-killah-shkreli-has-no-respect-for-life/?playlist_id=937116503001#sp=show-clips" /></p><p>Ghostface Killah called in for a Fox Business Network interview Tuesday morning in order to rip infamous ex-pharmaceutical CEO Martin Shkreli.</p>
<p>"He has no respect for life," Ghostface told anchor Maria Bartiromo of Shkreli.</p>
<p>The rapper continued: "I mean, he <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/why-martin-shkreli-hiked-drug-price-2015-10" target="_blank">raised the price</a> &mdash; you know I've been in on him &mdash; from what, $13, $15, to $750 a pill for these AIDS victims. And it was just like, yo, how could you do something like that? It's 5,000%."</p>
<p>The Wu-Tang Clan rapper and Shkreli have been in an escalating feud in recent weeks.</p>
<p>Shkreli, at the center of a price-gouging scandal, <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/martin-shkreli-explains-why-he-bought-the-wu-tang-clan-album-2016-2">bought the only copy</a> of Wu-Tang's new album, "Once Upon a Time in Shaolin." After Ghostface criticized Shkreli, the flamboyant executive&nbsp;<a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/martin-shkreli-dissed-ghostface-killah-wu-tang-clan-member-hostile-beef-video-2016-1">released a video</a> taunting the rapper and threatening to erase him from the album.</p>
<p>"I laughed at it. &hellip; It was comedy. It was comedy to me," Ghostface said Tuesday of the video. "I mean, I don't judge no man. But for me, being how I came up in the streets, just to see him [like] that, I fell out laughing in front of the computer."</p>
<p><img src="http://static1.businessinsider.com/image/56ba26022e526519008b5f6c-1884-942/screen shot 2016-02-09 at 12.45.22 pm.png" alt="ghostface martin shkreli" data-mce-source="Fox Business Network/screenshot" data-mce-caption="Ghostface Killah responds to Martin Shkreli." data-link="http://video.foxbusiness.com/v/4746775289001/ghostface-killah-shkreli-has-no-respect-for-life/?playlist_id=937116503001#sp=show-clips" /></p>
<p>Shkreli's infamy only increased last December <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/martin-shkreli-arrested-in-securities-fraud-investigation-2015-12">when he was arrested</a> on securities-fraud charges. Ghostface told Bartiromo that he hoped that the businessman ultimately faces "justice."</p>
<p>Bartiromo finished her interview by asking the rapper about the 2016 presidential race, in which Shkreli's price-gouging scandal has been a campaign-trail issue for Democrats. Ghostface said it was time for a female president and he was leaning toward supporting former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.</p>
<p>"Right now, I would say Hillary," he said. "You know, women have been through a lot in this country. And I would like to take a woman's&nbsp;opinion just to see the outcome and what it may be. And plus her husband, he's &hellip; been president before. And I think it'd be interesting."</p>
<p>"So you're not 'feeling the Bern,' I guess?" Bartiromo asked, referring to Clinton's primary rival, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vermont).</p>
<p>"No," Ghostface replied. "I'm just looking at our future. Because I just think Hillary's a good fit."</p><p><strong>SEE ALSO:&nbsp;<a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/donald-trump-retweet-ted-cruz-insult-2016-2" >Donald Trump's creative defense of vulgar insult: 'I was doing everybody a favor'</a></strong></p>
<p><a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/ghostface-killah-wu-tang-martin-shkreli-hillary-clinton-2016-2#comments">Join the conversation about this story &#187;</a></p> <p>NOW WATCH: <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/martin-shkreli-dissed-ghostface-killah-wu-tang-clan-member-hostile-beef-video-2016-1">Disgraced pharma CEO Martin Shkreli dissed a Wu-Tang Clan member in a hostile video</a></p> http://www.businessinsider.com/listen-bob-flat-earth-song-neil-tyson-2016-1A rapper who says the Earth is flat just released a song that bullies Neil Tyson and calls science a 'cult'http://www.businessinsider.com/listen-bob-flat-earth-song-neil-tyson-2016-1
Tue, 26 Jan 2016 10:31:00 -0500Dave Mosher and Anjelica Oswald
<p><img style="float:right;" src="http://static4.businessinsider.com/image/56a689b058c32390008b506f-2034-1525/gettyimages-485690626.jpg" alt="b.o.b. rapper" data-mce-source="Alberto E. Rodriguez/Getty Images"></p><p>Just a day after rapper and singer Bobby Ray Simmons Jr., better known as <a href="http://www.bobatl.com/" data-link-name="in body link" data-component="in-body-link">B.o.B</a>, fought with astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson on Twitter <a href="http://www.techinsider.io/bob-thinks-earth-is-flat-2016-1">over the Earth being flat</a>, he whipped together and released a new song.</p>
<p>Called "<a href="https://soundcloud.com/bobatl/bob-flatline-feat-neil-tyson">Flatline</a>" (listen below), the tune tells Tyson, an astrophysicist and science popularizer, to "loosen up his vest" and calls science a "cult" that's a "club full of liars."</p>
<p>The song's lyrics also question why NASA is part of the Department of Defense (<a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/interactive-budget">it's not</a>).</p>
<p>Poetic references in support of the flat-Earth conspiracy are also pretty abundant in verse lines like these: "That's probably why the horizon is always rising ... Heliocentrism, you were the sixth victim ... They nervous, but before you try to curve it"</p>
<p>And especially in the chorus:</p>
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<p>Flat line<br> You fooled us for the last time<br> Flat line, flat line<br> There's no superior blood line</p>
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<p>The end of the song seems to borrow audio of Tyson from 92Y's February 2014 video "<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SoCKapivHGM">The Earth Is Not Round</a>."</p>
<p>Listen to B.o.B's full song below and follow along with the lyrics at <a href="http://genius.com/Bob-flatline-lyrics">Genius.com</a>:</p>
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<p>And with apologies to B.o.B and other conspiracy theorists, if you're reading this post and have any question of whether or not the Earth is round, it is — although not <em>perfectly </em>round (it's <a href="http://www.geography.hunter.cuny.edu/~jochen/GTECH361/lectures/lecture04/concepts/Datums/The%20earths%20shape%20is%20a%20spheroid.htm">more of a spheroid</a>).</p>
<p>In addition to centuries of work in physics that back up a roundish Earth, countless photos of our home planet from space — taken by astronauts and satellites alike — plus endless hours of video footage of the world, more than settle the question:</p>
<p><img src="http://static5.businessinsider.com/image/56a79169dd08958d158b4629-2048-1536/earth_and_limb_m1199291564l_color_2stretch_mask_0.jpg" alt="earth_and_limb_m1199291564l_color_2stretch_mask_0" data-mce-source="NASA" data-link="http://www.nasa.gov/sites/default/files/thumbnails/image/earth_and_limb_m1199291564l_color_2stretch_mask_0.jpg"></p><p><a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/listen-bob-flat-earth-song-neil-tyson-2016-1#comments">Join the conversation about this story &#187;</a></p> <p>NOW WATCH: <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/9th-planet-discovered-astronomers-solar-system-space-2016-1">Astronomers have discovered a 9th planet in our solar system that's 10 times the mass of Earth</a></p> http://www.businessinsider.com/kanye-west-real-friends-2016-1Kanye West dropped a brand new track on his website — along with a clever hidden Easter egghttp://www.businessinsider.com/kanye-west-real-friends-2016-1
Fri, 08 Jan 2016 16:10:00 -0500Paul Szoldra and Paul Szoldra
<p><img style="float:right;" src="http://static1.businessinsider.com/image/5690240cdd08956c0d8b462f-1701-1275/kanye-west-vmas.jpg" alt="kanye west vmas" data-mce-source="Kevork Djansezian/Getty Images" /></p><p>Rapper Kanye West <a href="http://www.kanyewest.com" target="_blank">dropped a brand new track</a>&nbsp;to kick off the promise of new music "every Friday" and his website developers even put a clever Easter egg into the code.</p>
<p>The new track is called "Real Friends" and it loads as soon as his website is pulled up. Once the track plays through, it&nbsp;teases the release of his next song called "No Parties" &mdash; a collaboration between&nbsp;West and fellow rapper Kendrick Lamar.</p>
<p>The site is pretty spartan: Just a photo of a younger West playing keyboards with the music playing in the background. But if you pull up the source code, you'll see that developers <a href="http://www.builtbylane.com/" target="_blank">Lane Goldberg</a> and <a href="https://www.davidbaker.tv/" target="_blank">David Baker</a> snuck in some <a href="http://www.asciiworld.com/" target="_blank">ASCII Artwork</a> of that photo.</p>
<p>Here's what it looks like, side by side:</p>
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<p>West initially botched the release of the song, posting on Twitter that there "<a href="https://twitter.com/kanyewest/status/685533328506654720">was a slight distortion in the main loop</a>" of the track, and asked people to not download it. He uploaded the better sounding version a short time later.</p>
<p><strong>Now check <a href="http://www.kanyewest.com" target="_blank">out the track here.</a></strong></p><p><a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/kanye-west-real-friends-2016-1#comments">Join the conversation about this story &#187;</a></p> <p>NOW WATCH: <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/kanye-west-went-3-years-without-a-cellphone-2015-9">Kanye West once went 3 years without a cellphone</a></p> http://www.businessinsider.com/2-chainz-raised-money-for-veteran-2015-12Rapper 2 Chainz raised money for a disabled veteran facing evictionhttp://www.businessinsider.com/2-chainz-raised-money-for-veteran-2015-12
Wed, 09 Dec 2015 16:30:22 -0500Alana Yzola
<p>Rapper 2 Chainz is paying a year's worth of rent for a disabled veteran and her family.</p>
<p>Dierdre Plater, a single mother from Palmetto, Georgia, was struggling to make ends meet. She had been out of work for over a year, and had recently undergone surgery.</p>
<p>Her 14-year-old son Isaiah, who had heart surgery at only 18 months old, had been trying to help make ends meet by creating a trash-collecting business.</p>
<p>"Me and my mom... we've gone to the projects," Isaiah said in the video. "We've been homeless before."</p>
<p>2 Chainz had been raising money for his non-profit, the Tru Foundation, in hopes of helping a family in need. He is selling "<a href="http://www.2chainzshop.com/collections/all/dabbing-santa">Dabbing Santa</a>" sweaters on his website, and using a portion of the proceeds to fund his charity.</p>
<p>With the money raised, 2 Chainz was able to pay the Plater family's rent for a year, as well as furnish their empty apartment.</p>
<p>"I found a family who need it, not want it, but need it," said 2 Chainz. "[When] you pray, you never know what could happen to you."</p>
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Tue, 01 Dec 2015 11:54:00 -0500Adam Banicki
<p>Politically-charged rapper M.I.A. is taking on the current refugee crisis in her new music video. She herself was a&nbsp;<span>refugee, fleeing to England from war-torn Sri Lanka at age nine.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">“I was a refugee because of war, and now I have a voice in a time when war is the most invested thing on the planet,"&nbsp;</span><a href="http://www.theguardian.com/music/2005/sep/04/mercuryprize2005.popandrock">she told the Guardian in 2005</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">.</span></p>
<p>"Borders" shows the arduous journey refugees take when fleeing their homes for safety. The artist directed the music video herself, which is part of the not-yet-released album, "Metadata."</p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">The video is a graphic reminder of the everyday dangers refugees face while fleeing home.</span></p>
<p><em><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Story and editing by Adam Banicki</span></em></p><p><strong>INSIDER is on Facebook:&nbsp;<a href="https://www.facebook.com/thisisinsider/" >Follow us here</a></strong></p>
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Thu, 15 Oct 2015 10:51:54 -0400Aly Weisman
<p><img style="float:right;" src="http://static2.businessinsider.com/image/531f37746bb3f71b4c28e9c9-632-474/lil-boosie-rapper-2.png" alt="Lil Boosie rapper" border="0" /></p><p>Rapper Lil Boosie, 32, spent five years&nbsp;in Louisiana State Penitentiary&nbsp;after <a href="http://rapfix.mtv.com/2011/11/29/lil-boosie-pleads-guilty-to-drug-smuggling-8-year-prison-sentence/" target="_blank">pleading guilty</a> to drug charges.</p>
<p>But when he was <a href="http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1723844/lil-boosie-prison-release-interview.jhtml" target="_blank">released in March 2014</a>, the outside world was a different place.</p>
<p><span>Lil Boosie went to prison in 2009, but Instagram and FaceTime didn't launch until 2010, making the technologies the most mind-blowing things the rapper has seen since his release.</span></p>
<p><span>"I was surprised when I looked on my iPhone and you could look at people and talk on the phone at the same time," he <a href="http://www.tmz.com/2014/03/10/lil-boosie-facetime-iphone-prison-technology/" target="_blank">told TMZ after his release</a>. "I wasn't used to that so I was like, the world has changed!"</span></p>
<p><span>He added, "</span><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.5em;">I ain't never seen Instagram. I heard about it, but it was a new experience seeing it in person."</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.5em;">But while Boosie was away, his team created an Instagram account for him, often posting flashback photos with the hashtag <a href="http://instagram.com/p/hB8tZMupE6/" target="_blank">#FreeBoosie</a>.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.5em;">While he was locked up, <a href="http://instagram.com/officialboosie" target="_blank">@officialboosie</a>&nbsp;amassed nearly 388,000 followers.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 1.5em;">On March 10, 2014, Boosie took over the account and changed the handle to "@officialboosieig."</span></p>
<p><iframe width="612" height="710" frameborder="0" src="//instagram.com/p/lXgAGHupME/embed/"></iframe><br />Today, the rapper&nbsp;<span>&mdash;</span>&nbsp;who now goes by the name "Boosie Badazz"&nbsp;<span>&mdash;</span>&nbsp;<span>boasts <a href="https://instagram.com/officialboosieig/">1.9 million Instagram followers</a>.</span></p>
<p><span>According to social media, it&nbsp;appears Boosie&nbsp;is really enjoying his freedom:</span></p>
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<p>While behind bars, Boosie says, he wrote&nbsp;<span>1,018 songs. In May, he released his&nbsp;<span>sixth studio album, <a href="http://www.billboard.com/articles/review/6576057/boosie-badazz-touch-down-2-cause-hell-review-lil-boosie">"Touch Down 2 Cause Hell."</a></span></span></p>
<p><span>He now spends much of his time&nbsp;performing at clubs across the country.</span><img src="http://static1.businessinsider.com/image/561e9d299dd7cc10008c1ce6-954-629/screen shot 2015-10-14 at 2.20.06 pm.png" alt="Boosie" data-mce-source="instagram.com/officialboosieig" /></p>
<p>In his <a href="http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1723871/lil-boosie-wrote-songs-book-movie-prison.jhtml" target="_blank">first Q&amp;A</a>&nbsp;after his release, Boosie noted that the musical landscape, in addition to technology, had also changed.</p>
<p><span>"I feel like what I been hearing these last three or four days on the radio it's different from my music, and different brings greatness," the rapper says. "So I just feel I stand alone in the music industry to tell you the truth."</span></p><p><strong>SEE ALSO:&nbsp;<a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/frank-ocean-trashes-chipotle-after-ad-deal-goes-sour-2014-3#ixzz2vfTRhVyb" >Frank Ocean tells Chipotle to 'f--- off' over $212,500 commission</a></strong></p>
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Tue, 22 Sep 2015 17:55:00 -0400Benjamin Nigh
<p>A high school principal let a rapper use her home for a raunchy music video. Now she's taking some heat.&nbsp;</p>
<p><em>Story by <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/author/aly-weisman">Aly Weisman </a>and editing by Benjamin Nigh.&nbsp;</em></p>
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Thu, 27 Aug 2015 23:13:00 -0400Jon Blistein
<p><span><img style="float:right;" src="http://static3.businessinsider.com/image/559177726bb3f7ab78c9fb56-3500-2334/rtr4wzhw.jpg" alt="tyler the creator" data-mce-source="Lucy Nicholson/Reuters" />Odd Future member&nbsp;</span><a href="http://www.rollingstone.com/music/artists/tyler-the-creator">Tyler, the Creator</a><span>&nbsp;announced he has been banned from the United Kingdom after canceling a string of shows in the U.K. and Ireland, including sets at the Reading and Leeds Festivals.</span><span><br /></span></p>
<p>"Based on lyrics from 2009 I am not allowed in the U.K. for 3-5 years (although I was there 8 weeks ago). That is why the shows were canceled," the rapper wrote, in all caps, on <a href="https://twitter.com/fucktyler/status/636605593931767808" target="_blank">Twitter</a>.</p>
<p>Tyler's manager, Christian Clancy, echoed the sentiment in a <a href="http://thequietus.com/articles/18648-tyler-the-creator-banned-uk" target="_blank">post on Tumblr</a>, alleging that a&nbsp;letter from the U.K. Home Office specifically cited lyrics from 2009's <em>Bastard</em> and 2011's <em><a href="http://www.rollingstone.com/music/albumreviews/goblin-20110510">Goblin</a></em>.</p>
<p>"[T]he type of lyrics he hasn&rsquo;t written since," Clancy added. "[H]ighlights from the letter include that his work 'encourages violence and intolerance of homosexuality' and 'fosters hatred with views that seek to provoke others to terrorist acts.' I grew up on N.W.A, Eminem and Rage Against the Machine, so it's hard to me to fully wrap my head [around] this thought process and its implications."</p>
<p>While the official banishment note to Tyler was not released, <em><a href="http://thequietus.com/articles/18648-tyler-the-creator-banned-uk" target="_blank">The Quietus</a></em> did receive a comment from a Home Office spokesperson appearing to confirm the rapper's allegations. "Coming to the UK is a privilege, and we expect those who come here to respect our shared values," the spokesperson said. "The Home Secretary has the power to exclude an individual if she considers that his or her presence in the UK is not conducive to the public good or if their exclusion is justified on public policy grounds."</p>
<p>As Clancy also noted, Tyler has made over 20 trips to the U.K. in the last five years for concerts, in-stores and meet and greets, all without incident. He also admitted that while Tyler's old lyrics can make him cringe, being banned for them is "a broader issue of free speech, with new lines being drawn that include reaching back in time without acknowledging growth. In fact, punishing growth&hellip; Is he not worthy of the pat on the back for becoming aware and making changes? What message does that send? Is race a conscious or subconscious factor at all?"</p>
<p>The U.K. ban comes on the heels of Tyler's canceled Australian tour, which was protested by feminist group Collective Shout (who also campaigned against his 2013 trek). Tyler incorrectly claimed on Twitter that the group had gotten him&nbsp;banned from the country &mdash; igniting a wave of online vitriol and misogyny against&nbsp;Collective Shout director of operations, Coralie Alison &mdash; but <a href="http://www.cnn.com/2015/07/29/entertainment/australia-tyler-creator-feminist-ban/">CNN</a>&nbsp;reported that, at the time, his visa was still being inspected.</p>
<p>Last summer, Tyler and Odd Future were&nbsp;<a href="http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/odd-future-banned-from-new-zealand-20140213">banned from entering New Zealand</a>&nbsp;to play Eminem's Rapture Festival in Auckland. Immigration officials cited a 2011 incident in Boston where OF members reportedly urged fans to attack police officials; they "deemed [the group] to be a potential threat to public order and the public interest." In 2011, Odd Future was also&nbsp;<a href="http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/odd-futures-left-brain-charged-in-alleged-assault-of-female-photographer-20111106">dropped from the Big Day Out festival</a>&nbsp;after the Auckland City Council said the group's lyrics were misogynistic and homophobic.</p><p><strong>SEE ALSO:&nbsp;<a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/synthetic-drugs-a-problem-in-nyc-clubs-2015-8#ixzz3k43QQ7rr" >New Yorkers who go to nightclubs are taking dangerous drugs without even knowing it</a></strong></p>
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Mon, 24 Aug 2015 12:17:21 -0400Jacob Shamsian
<p><img style="float:right;" src="http://static1.businessinsider.com/image/55db43519dd7cc1d008b56c7-2171-1628/fetty wap.jpg" alt="Fetty Wap" data-mce-source="Michael Buckner/Getty Images" /></p><p>Fetty Wap's first album doesn't come out for another month, and the rapper is already breaking records. He's <a href="http://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/chart-beat/6671003/fetty-wap-rap-songs-chart-history">the first</a> artist to simultaneously have four singles on the Billboard Top 10 rap songs.</p>
<p>His new single "Again" debuted in the eighth slot <a href="http://www.billboard.com/charts/rap-song">on Billboard</a>, joining "Trap Queen" at number two, "My Way" at number three, and "679" at number five.</p>
<p><br />"Trap Queen" continues its reign as Wap's biggest hit. It's been in the top 3 for 25 of its 31 weeks on the chart, and it's hanging in at number 7 on the Billboard hot 100.</p>
<p>Other artists have had four songs chart in the top 10 before, but no one else has ever done it simultaneously.&nbsp;50 Cent was the first to have four&nbsp;concurrent songs in the top 10, in 2005, but in one song he was a featured artist &mdash; Wap is the lead artist in all four of his charting tracks.</p>
<p>Wap's debut album, which he said will be self-titled, is set for release on September 25. We're countin' up, watching how far&nbsp;Fetty goes.</p><p><strong>SEE ALSO:&nbsp;<a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/dr-dres-new-album-drops-85-percent-2015-8#ixzz3jkZIK3Pf" >Dr. Dre’s new album drops 85% in sales during its second week after 'Compton' controversy</a></strong></p>
<p><strong>MORE:&nbsp;<a href="http://www.techinsider.io/apples-beats-1-loves-hip-hop-music-2015-8#ixzz3jkPtPOw7" >Someone analyzed what songs Apple's new radio station plays the most and found a huge pattern</a></strong></p>
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Sun, 02 Aug 2015 17:45:00 -0400
<p><img style="float:right;" src="http://static5.businessinsider.com/image/55bcd9385afbd374748b4567-450-300/apper-snoop-dogg-stopped-in-italy-airport-with-422000-in-cash-2015-8.jpg" alt="Rapper Snoop Dogg performs in Uppsala, Sweden, July 25, 2015. REUTERS/Marcus Ericsson/TT News Agency" border="0" /></p><p>Italian police stopped California rapper Snoop Dogg on Friday as he prepared to board a private plane bound for Britain with $422,000 in cash in his Louis Vuitton luggage, said an Italian lawyer representing the entertainer.</p>
<p>In the European Union, the maximum amount of undeclared cash one can take on board a plane is 10,000 euros ($10,986.00). Snoop Dogg, who has been touring Europe after releasing the album "Bush" earlier this year, will have to pay a fine, said Andrea Parisi, his lawyer.</p>
<p>"We clarified everything from a legal point of view. The money came from concerts he had performed around Europe. There was no crime; it was just an administrative infraction," Parisi told Reuters on Saturday.</p>
<p>Half of the cash was given back to Snoop Dogg, whose real name is Calvin Broadus, while the other half is being held by Italian authorities until the amount of the fine is determined, Parisi said.</p>
<p>(Reporting by Steve Scherer; Editing by Digby Lidstone)</p><p><a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/r-rapper-snoop-dogg-stopped-in-italy-airport-with-422000-in-cash-2015-8#comments">Join the conversation about this story &#187;</a></p> <p>NOW WATCH: <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/income-state-top-one-percent-salary-map-2016-11">Here's how much you need to make to be in the top 1% of every state</a></p> http://www.businessinsider.com/50-cent-files-bankruptcy-lawsuit-rise-fall-2015-7This is how rapper 50 Cent made millions and then lost ithttp://www.businessinsider.com/50-cent-files-bankruptcy-lawsuit-rise-fall-2015-7
Mon, 13 Jul 2015 15:49:00 -0400Devan Joseph
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Sat, 06 Jun 2015 10:01:00 -0400Aly Weisman
<p><img style="float:right;" src="http://static5.businessinsider.com/image/556c6b67eab8eaaf57b5ebc3-1200-924/50-cent-14.jpg" border="0" alt="50 cent"></p><p>Rapper 50 Cent is the <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/musicians-against-tidal-going-to-fail-2015-4" target="_blank">latest musician to speak out</a> against Jay Z's $9.99-per-month artist-owned music-streaming service, <a href="http://tidal.com/us" target="_blank">Tidal</a>.</p>
<p>During an interview with the Los Angeles radio station <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_yGTcBU_Qmk&amp;feature=youtu.be" target="_blank">REAL 92.3</a>, the rapper was asked his thoughts on the service.</p>
<p>"They probably could've did something more exciting if they reached out, because the people you saw there don't even own the rights to their music," he said. "So they can't say it's gonna come out of Tidal. It has to go everywhere."</p>
<p>Essentially, 50 Cent is saying people don't need to pay upward of $9.99 a month for music that will be available elsewhere, including rival streaming services such as Pandora and Spotify. In other words, he says, "Why would you actually buy Tidal to get something that would be everywhere else?"</p>
<p>In March, Jay Z debuted Tidal with a <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/live-jay-z-press-conference-for-the-relaunch-of-tidal-music-streaming-service-2015-3" target="_blank">star-studded presentation</a> that included Usher, Rihanna, Nicki Minaj, Madonna, Kanye West, Daft Punk, Arcade Fire, Beyoncé, and many others.</p>
<p><img src="http://static3.businessinsider.com/image/556c6c1a69bedd7a76cba7ad-1200-600/jay-z-tidal-4.jpg" border="0" alt="jay z tidal">"Usher was there and Madonna and all these people. That's a little bit more of a, when you say, 'It was business,' it's more of a corporate play," 50 Cent said. "When the record is playing on the air, they say, 'Oh, all right. Let's get this guy.'</p>
<p>"The companies have contracts, and companies are gonna do everything to get the maximum performance out of the music," he added. "They're not going to just put it through Tidal as a service."</p>
<p>Jay Z bought Tidal in January for a <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/jay-z-buys-wimp-and-tidal-streaming-services-2015-1" target="_blank">reported $56 million</a> with the intention of creating the world's first streaming platform owned by musicians. The service pays established musicians for use of their music.</p>
<p>Subscribers can also receive some exclusive content, such as <a href="http://www.billboard.com/articles/news/6524165/beyonce-die-with-you-on-wedding-anniversary-jay-z" target="_blank">Beyoncé's recent track</a> that coincided with her and Jay Z's wedding anniversary.</p>
<p><img style="float:right;" src="http://static6.businessinsider.com/image/556c6fae69bedd1b14cba7af-1200-924/50-cent-jay-z.jpg" border="0" alt="50 Cent Jay Z">But 50 Cent isn't the first artist to question Tidal.</p>
<p>Death Cab for Cutie singer Ben Gibbard told <a href="http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/04/11/death-cab-for-cutie-frontman-ben-gibbard-slams-indiana-and-talks-divorce.html" target="_blank">The Daily Beast</a> in April: "I think they totally blew it by bringing out a bunch of millionaires and billionaires and propping them up onstage and then having them all complain about not being paid. That's why this thing is going to fail miserably."</p>
<p>Mumford and Sons front man <a href="http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/04/12/mumford-sons-diss-jay-z-s-tidal.html" target="_blank">Marcus Mumford added</a>: "We want people to listen to our music in their most comfortable way, and if they're not up for paying for it, I don't really care."</p>
<p>Singer Lily Allen, too, <a href="https://twitter.com/lilyallen" target="_blank">tweeted</a>: "I love Jay Z so much, but TIDAL is so expensive compared to other perfectly good streaming services ... He's taken the biggest artists &amp; made them exclusive to TIDAL (am i right in thinking this ?), people are going to swarm back to pirate sites in droves sending traffic to torrent sites. Up and coming (not yet millionaires) artists are going to suffer as a result … my concern is that Tidal may set emerging artists back."</p>
<p>Watch 50 Cent's recent remarks below (4:55)</p>
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<p><strong>MORE:&nbsp;<a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/tidal-was-in-partnership-talks-with-rhapsody-2015-6#ixzz3bp1vRLpT" >Tidal is looking to partner with another streaming site to help it make money</a></strong></p>
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Mon, 01 Jun 2015 10:49:00 -0400Aly Weisman
<p><img style="float:right;" src="http://static5.businessinsider.com/image/556c6b67eab8eaaf57b5ebc3-1200-924/50-cent-14.jpg" border="0" alt="50 cent"></p><p>Rapper 50 Cent is the <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/musicians-against-tidal-going-to-fail-2015-4" target="_blank">latest musician to speak out</a> against Jay Z's $9.99-per-month artist-owned music-streaming service, <a href="http://tidal.com/us" target="_blank">Tidal</a>.</p>
<p>During an interview with the Los Angeles radio station <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_yGTcBU_Qmk&amp;feature=youtu.be" target="_blank">REAL 92.3</a>, the rapper was asked his thoughts on the service.</p>
<p>"They probably could've did something more exciting if they reached out, because the people you saw there don't even own the rights to their music," he said. "So they can't say it's gonna come out of Tidal. It has to go everywhere."</p>
<p>Essentially, 50 Cent is saying people don't need to pay upward of $9.99 a month for music that will be available elsewhere, including rival streaming services such as Pandora and Spotify. In other words, he says, "Why would you actually buy Tidal to get something that would be everywhere else?"</p>
<p>In March, Jay Z debuted Tidal with a <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/live-jay-z-press-conference-for-the-relaunch-of-tidal-music-streaming-service-2015-3" target="_blank">star-studded presentation</a> that included Usher, Rihanna, Nicki Minaj, Madonna, Kanye West, Daft Punk, Arcade Fire, Beyoncé, and many others.</p>
<p><img src="http://static3.businessinsider.com/image/556c6c1a69bedd7a76cba7ad-1200-600/jay-z-tidal-4.jpg" border="0" alt="jay z tidal">"Usher was there and Madonna and all these people. That's a little bit more of a, when you say, 'It was business,' it's more of a corporate play," 50 Cent said. "When the record is playing on the air, they say, 'Oh, all right. Let's get this guy.'</p>
<p>"The companies have contracts, and companies are gonna do everything to get the maximum performance out of the music," he added. "They're not going to just put it through Tidal as a service."</p>
<p>Jay Z bought Tidal in January for a <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/jay-z-buys-wimp-and-tidal-streaming-services-2015-1" target="_blank">reported $56 million</a> with the intention of creating the world's first streaming platform owned by musicians. The service pays established musicians for use of their music.</p>
<p>Subscribers can also receive some exclusive content, such as <a href="http://www.billboard.com/articles/news/6524165/beyonce-die-with-you-on-wedding-anniversary-jay-z" target="_blank">Beyoncé's recent track</a> that coincided with her and Jay Z's wedding anniversary.</p>
<p><img style="float:right;" src="http://static6.businessinsider.com/image/556c6fae69bedd1b14cba7af-1200-924/50-cent-jay-z.jpg" border="0" alt="50 Cent Jay Z">But 50 Cent isn't the first artist to question Tidal.</p>
<p>Death Cab for Cutie singer Ben Gibbard told <a href="http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/04/11/death-cab-for-cutie-frontman-ben-gibbard-slams-indiana-and-talks-divorce.html" target="_blank">The Daily Beast</a> in April: "I think they totally blew it by bringing out a bunch of millionaires and billionaires and propping them up onstage and then having them all complain about not being paid. That's why this thing is going to fail miserably."</p>
<p>Mumford and Sons front man <a href="http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/04/12/mumford-sons-diss-jay-z-s-tidal.html" target="_blank">Marcus Mumford added</a>: "We want people to listen to our music in their most comfortable way, and if they're not up for paying for it, I don't really care."</p>
<p>Singer Lily Allen, too, <a href="https://twitter.com/lilyallen" target="_blank">tweeted</a>: "I love Jay Z so much, but TIDAL is so expensive compared to other perfectly good streaming services ... He's taken the biggest artists &amp; made them exclusive to TIDAL (am i right in thinking this ?), people are going to swarm back to pirate sites in droves sending traffic to torrent sites. Up and coming (not yet millionaires) artists are going to suffer as a result … my concern is that Tidal may set emerging artists back."</p>
<p>Watch 50 Cent's recent remarks below (4:55)</p>
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<p><strong>MORE:&nbsp;<a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/tidal-was-in-partnership-talks-with-rhapsody-2015-6#ixzz3bp1vRLpT" >Tidal is looking to partner with another streaming site to help it make money</a></strong></p>
<p><a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/50-cent-slams-jay-zs-tidal-2015-6#comments">Join the conversation about this story &#187;</a></p> <p>NOW WATCH: <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/70-million-mansion-minecraft-jay-z-beyonce-beverly-hills-2014-12">Here's Video Of That Bonkers $70 Million Mansion That The Minecraft Creator Bought, Outbidding Jay Z And Beyoncé</a></p> http://www.businessinsider.com/the-fabulous-life-of-dr-dre-2015-5The fabulous life of Dr. Dre, one year after Apple acquired his company, Beats, for $3 billionhttp://www.businessinsider.com/the-fabulous-life-of-dr-dre-2015-5
Wed, 27 May 2015 15:02:00 -0400Madeline Stone
<p><img style="float:right;" src="http://static1.businessinsider.com/image/536c02c96bb3f7aa7ee3ef93-1200-924/beats-electronics-dr-dre.jpg" border="0" alt="beats electronics dr. dre"></p><p>With an <a href="http://www.forbes.com/sites/zackomalleygreenburg/2015/05/06/dr-dres-net-worth-in-2015-700-million/">estimated net worth</a> of $700 million, Dr. Dre is one of the wealthiest men in hip-hop. Only Diddy, with an estimated wealth of $735 million, is worth more. </p>
<p>According to Forbes, Dr. Dre <a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/dr-dre-made-more-in-2014-than-all-other-hip-hop-cash-kings-combined-and-it-wasnt-even-close-2014-9">earned a whopping $620 million</a> before taxes in 2014, the biggest paycheck of any entertainer in history. </p>
<p>Apple acquired Beats Music and Beats Electronics, the music company Dre started with Jimmy Iovine in 2008, for $3 billion in May 2014. </p>
<p>In honor of the anniversary, we're taking a look at how the fabulously wealthy rapper spends his millions. </p><h3>Dr. Dre, born Andre Romelle Young, has had a prolific rap career dating back to the 1980s. Through Aftermath, a division of Interscope, he helped launch the careers of both Eminem and 50 Cent. </h3>
<img src="http://static4.businessinsider.com/image/5565ef5eeab8eafb3ae30458-400-300/dr-dre-born-andre-romelle-young-has-had-a-prolific-rap-career-dating-back-to-the-1980s-through-aftermath-a-division-of-interscope-he-helped-launch-the-careers-of-both-eminem-and-50-cent.jpg" alt="" />
<p><p><em>Source: <a href="http://www.wsj.com/articles/dr-dre-and-jimmy-iovines-school-for-innovation-1415238722">WSJ</a></em></p></p>
<br/><br/><h3>Dre still does some performances from time to time. In 2012, he headlined Coachella with Snoop Dogg.</h3>
<img src="http://static3.businessinsider.com/image/55660da5eab8ead901e30450-400-300/dre-still-does-some-performances-from-time-to-time-in-2012-he-headlined-coachella-with-snoop-dogg.jpg" alt="" />
<br/><br/><h3>Dre married attorney Nicole Threatt in 1996. Together they have two young children: a son named Truice and a daughter named Truly. </h3>
<img src="http://static1.businessinsider.com/image/556602b06da811f33ce7d6fd-400-300/dre-married-attorney-nicole-threatt-in-1996-together-they-have-two-young-children-a-son-named-truice-and-a-daughter-named-truly.jpg" alt="" />
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Sun, 08 Mar 2015 12:35:00 -0400Business Insider
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"><img src="http://static4.businessinsider.com/image/54fa0340ecad0424657dc2c3-1200-600/2-chainz.jpg" border="0" alt="2 chainz">"I'm 2 Chainz and I'm flamboyant, I like the fancy things, and I'm always craving for something more." &nbsp;</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">This is the tagline rapper 2 Chainz uses to introduce the second season of his GQ web series, "<a href="http://video.gq.com/series/most-expensivest-shit" target="_blank">Most Expensivest Shit</a>," in which the 37-year-old tries out all of the fanciest toys, food, and gadgets, and the&nbsp;<span>craziest luxury goods</span>&nbsp;in the world.</span></p>
<p>In honor of season two premiering this week, and 18 episodes in the can so far, we've rounded up five of the most outrageous below.</p>
<p><strong>1. A $2 million car.</strong></p>
<p>2 Chainz visited <a href="http://www.cooperclassiccars.com/" target="_blank">Cooper Classic Cars</a> in New York City to check out the rarest vintage rides money can buy, including this $2 million 1956 Mercedes-Benz 300SL.</p>
<p><img src="http://static1.businessinsider.com/image/54fa037f69beddfc4e0b2643-1200-600/screen shot 2015-03-06 at 11.19.23 am 2.jpg" border="0" alt="car"><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">The dirt alone on the car is worth $20,000, owner&nbsp;</span><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Elliot Cuker tells the rapper.</span></p>
<p><span>2 Chainz was especially impressed by the car's gullwing.</span></p>
<p><span><img src="http://static6.businessinsider.com/image/54fa051b69bedd5d4f0b264c-1200-600/screen shot 2015-03-06 at 11.20.30 am.jpg" border="0" alt="2 Chainz car gullwing"></span><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Watch the full clip&nbsp;</span><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"></span><a href="http://video.gq.com/watch/most-expensivest-shit-shopping-for-a-2-million-car-with-2-chainz" target="_blank">here</a>.</p>
<p><strong style="line-height: 1.5em;">2. $30,000 limited-edition headphones.</strong></p>
<p>"In the early '90s, Sennheiser gave its engineers a mission: make the best headphones ever, irrespective of price," explains <a href="http://gizmodo.com/5974955/sennheiser-orpheus-he90-first-listen-so-this-is-what-16000-headphones-sound-like" target="_blank">Gizmodo</a>. "They came up with the Orpheus HE90. Only 300 were made. They initially sold for $16,000. Today they sell phone upwards of $30,000 on eBay."</p>
<p><img src="http://static1.businessinsider.com/image/54fa041469bedd804e0b2646-1200-569/screen shot 2015-03-06 at 11.04.35 am.jpg" border="0" alt="2 chain rapper headphones"><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">2 Chainz got his hands on the headphones, which he says "are even louder than they look."</span></p>
<p>Here are the headphones in their special case:</p>
<p><img src="http://static4.businessinsider.com/image/54fa04146da8112c4a915b9a-1200-667/screen shot 2015-03-06 at 11.01.12 am.jpg" border="0" alt="2 chainz headphones"><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">For listening purposes, the headphones must be&nbsp;</span><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">plugged into the mate unit, called a stereo amplifier, which is an amp just for the headphones.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"><img src="http://static3.businessinsider.com/image/54fa04146da8116553915b98-1200-632/screen shot 2015-03-06 at 11.02.20 am.jpg" border="0" alt="headphone amp"><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">"It's the closet you can get to live music," says the headphone owner.</span></span></p>
<p>Watch the full clip <a href="http://video.gq.com/watch/most-expensivest-shit-2-chainz-tests-out-30k-headphones-that-put-beats-by-dre-to-shame" target="_blank">here</a>.</p>
<p><strong>3. A $4,000 toothbrush.</strong></p>
<p>Germany's <a href="http://www.reinast.com/" target="_blank">Reinast luxury toothbrush</a> is the most expensive toothbrush in the world.</p>
<p><img src="http://static1.businessinsider.com/image/54fa045969bedd914e0b2643-1200-667/screen shot 2015-03-06 at 11.37.25 am.jpg" border="0" alt="2 Chainz toothbrush"><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">It is made of titanium, has a patented coating, and it's antibacterial so it helps fight the bacteria that causes cavities.</span></p>
<p>Every month, new bristles are sent to the toothbrush owner, so it really lasts a lifetime.</p>
<p><img src="http://static4.businessinsider.com/image/54fa049eeab8eaaf787dc2c6-1920-1013/screen shot 2015-03-06 at 11.34.46 am.jpg" border="0" alt="toothbrush"><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">And, it's even customizable.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"><img src="http://static4.businessinsider.com/image/54fa049e69beddc44f0b2644-1200-572/screen shot 2015-03-06 at 11.35.55 am.jpg" border="0" alt="2 chainz toothbrush"><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Watch the full clip </span><a href="http://video.gq.com/watch/most-expensivest-shit-2-chainz-thinks-this-5k-toothbrush-is-going-to-knock-your-socks-off" target="_blank">here</a>.</span></p>
<p><strong>4. The $295&nbsp;<span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Le Burger Extravagant from Serendipity 3.</span></strong></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">"This burger costs more than your iPhone," the rapper says while introducing the Guinness Book of World Records' <a href="http://articles.latimes.com/2012/may/29/business/la-fi-mo-serendipity-burger-20120529" target="_blank">most expensive hamburger</a>.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Why the price tag? </span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Check out the list of ingredients:&nbsp;</span><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Japanese Wagyu beef infused with white truffle butter, cheese that has been aged 18 months in a cave, shaved black truffles from Italy, heirloom tomato ketchup, quail eggs, and $200 per ounce caviar <span>—</span>&nbsp;all held together with a gold and diamond toothpick.</span></p>
<p><img src="http://static2.businessinsider.com/image/54f8df84eab8eac570a5b463-1920-967/screen shot 2015-03-05 at 5.52.14 pm.png" border="0" alt="Hamburger"></p>
<p>Watch the full clip <a href="http://video.gq.com/watch/most-expensivest-shit-what-does-a-295-burger-taste-like-uncensored" target="_blank">here</a>.</p>
<p><strong>5. A giant pipe filled with cannabis, which costs $800 an ounce.</strong></p>
<p>2 Chainz tried out a ridiculously large pipe filled the world's most expensive weed.</p>
<p><img src="http://static4.businessinsider.com/image/54fa02ff69bedd714e0b2642-1200-667/screen shot 2015-03-06 at 12.30.13 pm.jpg" border="0" alt="2 Chainz giant pipe">The world's two most expensive cannabis types are called Isla and Top Shelf, which are canned cannabis. It is actually cut off the plant, trimmed, put it in the cans, sealed, and cured in the cans.</p>
<p><img src="http://static4.businessinsider.com/image/54fa02a36da8112d4a915b98-1920-911/screen shot 2015-03-06 at 12.27.34 pm.jpg" border="0" alt="cannabis in a can"><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">It costs $100 per can, or $800 an ounce.</span></p>
<p><img src="http://static1.businessinsider.com/image/54fa02a36bb3f798450b264e-1200-632/screen shot 2015-03-06 at 12.29.37 pm.jpg" border="0" alt="2 Chainz most expensivest shit">Once the pipe is ready to be smoked, it's so big that it has to be lit with a blowtorch.</p>
<p><img src="http://static3.businessinsider.com/image/54fa02a3eab8ea716f7dc2c4-1200-667/screen shot 2015-03-06 at 12.31.19 pm.jpg" border="0" alt="2 chain giant pipe">The rapper seemed to thoroughly enjoy himself.</p>
<p><img src="http://static2.businessinsider.com/image/54f9f7ceeab8eac2487dc2c3-1200-632/screen shot 2015-03-06 at 12.32.18 pm-1.png" border="0" alt="2 Chainz giant pipe weed"><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">2 Chainz also tried out 24K gold, handmade edible rolling papers.</span></p>
<p><img src="http://static4.businessinsider.com/image/54f9f433eab8eabe357dc2c6-1920-1017/screen shot 2015-03-06 at 12.16.24 pm.png" border="0" alt="gold rolling papers">Two sheets will set you back $20, or 12 sheets for $55.</p>
<p><img src="http://static1.businessinsider.com/image/54fa0206ecad04b8647dc2c3-1200-572/screen shot 2015-03-06 at 12.32.43 pm.jpg" border="0" alt="2 Chainz smoking weed rapper"><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Watch the full clip&nbsp;</span><a href="http://video.gq.com/watch/most-expensivest-shit-getting-really-ridiculously-high-with-2-chainz?c=series" target="_blank">here</a>.</p><p><strong>SEE ALSO:&nbsp;<a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/nancy-grace-2-chainz-debate-legalizing-pot-2015-1" >Nancy Grace and rapper 2 Chainz have an incredible debate over legalizing pot</a></strong></p>
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Fri, 06 Mar 2015 15:05:00 -0500Aly Weisman
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"><img src="http://static4.businessinsider.com/image/54fa0340ecad0424657dc2c3-1200-600/2-chainz.jpg" border="0" alt="2 chainz">"I'm 2 Chainz and I'm flamboyant, I like the fancy things, and I'm always craving for something more." &nbsp;</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">This is the tagline rapper 2 Chainz uses to introduce the second season of his GQ web series, "<a href="http://video.gq.com/series/most-expensivest-shit" target="_blank">Most Expensivest Shit</a>," in which the 37-year-old tries out all of the fanciest toys, food, and gadgets, and the&nbsp;<span>craziest luxury goods</span>&nbsp;in the world.</span></p>
<p>In honor of season two premiering this week, and 18 episodes in the can so far, we've rounded up five of the most outrageous below.</p>
<p><strong>1. A $2 million car.</strong></p>
<p>2 Chainz visited <a href="http://www.cooperclassiccars.com/" target="_blank">Cooper Classic Cars</a> in New York City to check out the rarest vintage rides money can buy, including this $2 million 1956 Mercedes-Benz 300SL.</p>
<p><img src="http://static1.businessinsider.com/image/54fa037f69beddfc4e0b2643-1200-600/screen shot 2015-03-06 at 11.19.23 am 2.jpg" border="0" alt="car"><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">The dirt alone on the car is worth $20,000, owner&nbsp;</span><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Elliot Cuker tells the rapper.</span></p>
<p><span>2 Chainz was especially impressed by the car's gullwing.</span></p>
<p><span><img src="http://static6.businessinsider.com/image/54fa051b69bedd5d4f0b264c-1200-600/screen shot 2015-03-06 at 11.20.30 am.jpg" border="0" alt="2 Chainz car gullwing"></span><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Watch the full clip&nbsp;</span><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"></span><a href="http://video.gq.com/watch/most-expensivest-shit-shopping-for-a-2-million-car-with-2-chainz" target="_blank">here</a>.</p>
<p><strong style="line-height: 1.5em;">2. $30,000 limited-edition headphones.</strong></p>
<p>"In the early '90s, Sennheiser gave its engineers a mission: make the best headphones ever, irrespective of price," explains <a href="http://gizmodo.com/5974955/sennheiser-orpheus-he90-first-listen-so-this-is-what-16000-headphones-sound-like" target="_blank">Gizmodo</a>. "They came up with the Orpheus HE90. Only 300 were made. They initially sold for $16,000. Today they sell phone upwards of $30,000 on eBay."</p>
<p><img src="http://static1.businessinsider.com/image/54fa041469bedd804e0b2646-1200-569/screen shot 2015-03-06 at 11.04.35 am.jpg" border="0" alt="2 chain rapper headphones"><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">2 Chainz got his hands on the headphones, which he says "are even louder than they look."</span></p>
<p>Here are the headphones in their special case:</p>
<p><img src="http://static4.businessinsider.com/image/54fa04146da8112c4a915b9a-1200-667/screen shot 2015-03-06 at 11.01.12 am.jpg" border="0" alt="2 chainz headphones"><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">For listening purposes, the headphones must be&nbsp;</span><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">plugged into the mate unit, called a stereo amplifier, which is an amp just for the headphones.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"><img src="http://static3.businessinsider.com/image/54fa04146da8116553915b98-1200-632/screen shot 2015-03-06 at 11.02.20 am.jpg" border="0" alt="headphone amp"><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">"It's the closet you can get to live music," says the headphone owner.</span></span></p>
<p>Watch the full clip <a href="http://video.gq.com/watch/most-expensivest-shit-2-chainz-tests-out-30k-headphones-that-put-beats-by-dre-to-shame" target="_blank">here</a>.</p>
<p><strong>3. A $4,000 toothbrush.</strong></p>
<p>Germany's <a href="http://www.reinast.com/" target="_blank">Reinast luxury toothbrush</a> is the most expensive toothbrush in the world.</p>
<p><img src="http://static1.businessinsider.com/image/54fa045969bedd914e0b2643-1200-667/screen shot 2015-03-06 at 11.37.25 am.jpg" border="0" alt="2 Chainz toothbrush"><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">It is made of titanium, has a patented coating, and it's antibacterial so it helps fight the bacteria that causes cavities.</span></p>
<p>Every month, new bristles are sent to the toothbrush owner, so it really lasts a lifetime.</p>
<p><img src="http://static4.businessinsider.com/image/54fa049eeab8eaaf787dc2c6-1920-1013/screen shot 2015-03-06 at 11.34.46 am.jpg" border="0" alt="toothbrush"><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">And, it's even customizable.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"><img src="http://static4.businessinsider.com/image/54fa049e69beddc44f0b2644-1200-572/screen shot 2015-03-06 at 11.35.55 am.jpg" border="0" alt="2 chainz toothbrush"><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Watch the full clip </span><a href="http://video.gq.com/watch/most-expensivest-shit-2-chainz-thinks-this-5k-toothbrush-is-going-to-knock-your-socks-off" target="_blank">here</a>.</span></p>
<p><strong>4. The $295&nbsp;<span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Le Burger Extravagant from Serendipity 3.</span></strong></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">"This burger costs more than your iPhone," the rapper says while introducing the Guinness Book of World Records' <a href="http://articles.latimes.com/2012/may/29/business/la-fi-mo-serendipity-burger-20120529" target="_blank">most expensive hamburger</a>.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Why the price tag? </span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Check out the list of ingredients:&nbsp;</span><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Japanese Wagyu beef infused with white truffle butter, cheese that has been aged 18 months in a cave, shaved black truffles from Italy, heirloom tomato ketchup, quail eggs, and $200 per ounce caviar <span>—</span>&nbsp;all held together with a gold and diamond toothpick.</span></p>
<p><img src="http://static2.businessinsider.com/image/54f8df84eab8eac570a5b463-1920-967/screen shot 2015-03-05 at 5.52.14 pm.png" border="0" alt="Hamburger"></p>
<p>Watch the full clip <a href="http://video.gq.com/watch/most-expensivest-shit-what-does-a-295-burger-taste-like-uncensored" target="_blank">here</a>.</p>
<p><strong>5. A giant pipe filled with cannabis, which costs $800 an ounce.</strong></p>
<p>2 Chainz tried out a ridiculously large pipe filled the world's most expensive weed.</p>
<p><img src="http://static4.businessinsider.com/image/54fa02ff69bedd714e0b2642-1200-667/screen shot 2015-03-06 at 12.30.13 pm.jpg" border="0" alt="2 Chainz giant pipe">The world's two most expensive cannabis types are called Isla and Top Shelf, which are canned cannabis. It is actually cut off the plant, trimmed, put it in the cans, sealed, and cured in the cans.</p>
<p><img src="http://static4.businessinsider.com/image/54fa02a36da8112d4a915b98-1920-911/screen shot 2015-03-06 at 12.27.34 pm.jpg" border="0" alt="cannabis in a can"><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">It costs $100 per can, or $800 an ounce.</span></p>
<p><img src="http://static1.businessinsider.com/image/54fa02a36bb3f798450b264e-1200-632/screen shot 2015-03-06 at 12.29.37 pm.jpg" border="0" alt="2 Chainz most expensivest shit">Once the pipe is ready to be smoked, it's so big that it has to be lit with a blowtorch.</p>
<p><img src="http://static3.businessinsider.com/image/54fa02a3eab8ea716f7dc2c4-1200-667/screen shot 2015-03-06 at 12.31.19 pm.jpg" border="0" alt="2 chain giant pipe">The rapper seemed to thoroughly enjoy himself.</p>
<p><img src="http://static2.businessinsider.com/image/54f9f7ceeab8eac2487dc2c3-1200-632/screen shot 2015-03-06 at 12.32.18 pm-1.png" border="0" alt="2 Chainz giant pipe weed"><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">2 Chainz also tried out 24K gold, handmade edible rolling papers.</span></p>
<p><img src="http://static4.businessinsider.com/image/54f9f433eab8eabe357dc2c6-1920-1017/screen shot 2015-03-06 at 12.16.24 pm.png" border="0" alt="gold rolling papers">Two sheets will set you back $20, or 12 sheets for $55.</p>
<p><img src="http://static1.businessinsider.com/image/54fa0206ecad04b8647dc2c3-1200-572/screen shot 2015-03-06 at 12.32.43 pm.jpg" border="0" alt="2 Chainz smoking weed rapper"><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Watch the full clip&nbsp;</span><a href="http://video.gq.com/watch/most-expensivest-shit-getting-really-ridiculously-high-with-2-chainz?c=series" target="_blank">here</a>.</p><p><strong>SEE ALSO:&nbsp;<a href="http://www.businessinsider.com/nancy-grace-2-chainz-debate-legalizing-pot-2015-1" >Nancy Grace and rapper 2 Chainz have an incredible debate over legalizing pot</a></strong></p>
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Wed, 14 Jan 2015 10:23:00 -0500Aly Weisman
<p><img src="http://static5.businessinsider.com/image/54b680c06bb3f72a4557a390-800-/enhanced-18154-1421202173-26.png" border="0" alt="Nancy Grace 2 Chainz" width="800"></p><p></p>
<p>Nancy Grace and rapper 2 Chainz had an amazing debate over the <span>legalization of marijuana Tuesday night <span>on the legal analyst's HLN show.</span></span></p>
<p>The rapper, who graduated from Alabama State University<span> <span>with a 4.0 while </span>on a </span>basketball scholarship, is in favor of legalizing the drug. <a href="http://www.gossipcop.com/nancy-grace-2-chainz-pot-video-2chainz-weed-marijuana-legalization-debate-watch/" target="_blank">GossipCop</a> summed up 2 Chainz's argument on the show: "Minor drug offenses can prevent people from getting jobs and loans, and suggested that legalization could ease overcrowding in prisons and help the economy, saying taxpayer money would be freed up if people weren’t unnecessarily being prosecuted."<span> </span></p>
<p><span><span><span>The rapper also revealed he personally used weed to help with his anxiety before "shows in front of 50, 60,000 people."</span></span></span></p>
<p><iframe width="560" height="315" frameborder="0" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/e25in2BNo48"></iframe></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Grace argued the opposite, citing </span><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">a few incidents in which young children encountered weed, such as one story "like a mom and a dad on the porch, and the baby dies in a fire." </span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Grace pressed the rapper on how he — a role model — could support the legalization of marijuana in light of stories like a toddler smoking weed.</span></p>
<p><span><span><span>"T<span>hese people are obviously imbeciles. You can't use this case to define an entire community,</span>" 2 Chainz responded, while referring to Grace as "Darlin'."</span></span></span></p>
<p><iframe width="560" height="315" frameborder="0" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/MbA2Wc-4ctQ"></iframe></p>
<p><strong>Throughout the interview, Grace had some incredible one-liners:</strong></p>
<ul>
<li><span style="color: #000000; line-height: 1.5em;">"And while I have you, why the 2 Chainz?"</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #000000; line-height: 1.5em;">"I'm not defining everybody, so don't throw me in that pot and stew me."</span></li>
<li><span style="color: #000000; line-height: 1.5em;">"Everybody shouldn't have free access to go get pot like you get orange juice at the grocery store. Like you order it up like a pizza."</span></li>
</ul>
<p><strong style="line-height: 1.5em;">She even recited some of 2 Chainz's lyrics:</strong></p>
<p><span>"'Smoking California weed with California whores' — excuse me, 'true.' I left that out," Grace said. "Truuuue!" 2 Chainz responded.</span></p>
<p><strong>Despite the back and forth, both Grace and 2 Chainz seemed to enjoy the debate.</strong></p>
<p><strong>After the show, the two tweeted at each other:<span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> </span></strong></p>
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en">
<p>.<a href="https://twitter.com/2chainz">@2chainz</a> you're on. I'm gonna talk u out of this pot thing. Ps. I don't think that's a real rolex u have on. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Pot2Blame?src=hash">#Pot2Blame</a>?</p>
— Nancy Grace (@NancyGraceHLN) <a href="https://twitter.com/NancyGraceHLN/status/555177821568774144">January 14, 2015</a>
</blockquote>
<p> </p>
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en">
<p>We still cool! That was a great debate thanks Nancy...bill o Reilly U up next! <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/TRUsday?src=hash">#TRUsday</a> <a href="http://t.co/LPAGNHTBU3">http://t.co/LPAGNHTBU3</a></p>
— Tity Boi (2 Chainz) (@2chainz) <a href="https://twitter.com/2chainz/status/555191952333762561">January 14, 2015</a>
</blockquote>
<p> </p>
<p><strong>People on Twitter were quick to comment on the interview:</strong></p>
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en">
<p>I'm not even 2 minutes in and I'm dying. Nancy Grace just said "a big, fat DOOBY" hahaha <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/pottoblame?src=hash">#pottoblame</a></p>
— karee b. (@kaefurious) <a href="https://twitter.com/kaefurious/status/555360035686350848">January 14, 2015</a>
</blockquote>
<p> </p>
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en">
<p>Can we give <a href="https://twitter.com/2chainz">@2chainz</a> his own news show? He's much wiser and more entertaining than <a href="https://twitter.com/NancyGraceHLN">@NancyGraceHLN</a> Is <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/pottoblame?src=hash">#pottoblame</a> ? No.</p>
— Nicole Holliday (@2IntrAKAte) <a href="https://twitter.com/2IntrAKAte/status/555318473568829440">January 14, 2015</a>
</blockquote>
<p> </p>
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en">
<p>"And while I have you, why the 2 chains? Just curious..." - Nancy Grace, to 2 Chainz, in the best moment in the history of cable news</p>
— Wesley Lowery (@WesleyLowery) <a href="https://twitter.com/WesleyLowery/status/555188287217094657">January 14, 2015</a>
</blockquote>
<p> </p>
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en">
<p>2 chainz presented himself so well and nancy grace was so upset she couldn't make an example out of him so she had to go the scapegoat route</p>
— Ahmed/Red Cafe Fan (@big_business_) <a href="https://twitter.com/big_business_/status/555186765657833472">January 14, 2015</a>
</blockquote>
<p> </p>
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en">
<p>Bruh 2 chainz went to college and graduated with a 4.0 like what? He's not just some dumb ass rapper.</p>
— The Professor (@HiiiLife_) <a href="https://twitter.com/HiiiLife_/status/555188005951258626">January 14, 2015</a>
</blockquote>
<p> </p>
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en">
<p>2 chainz called nancy grace darlin during debate about weed, what a time to be alive</p>
— Perry Kostidakis (@perrykos) <a href="https://twitter.com/perrykos/status/555188426945744896">January 14, 2015</a>
</blockquote>
<p> </p>
<blockquote class="twitter-tweet" lang="en">
<p>"I'm not blaming everybody so don't throw me in that pot and stew me."~ ~ ~ Nancy Grace <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/pottoblame?src=hash">#pottoblame</a> <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/Pot2Blame?src=hash">#Pot2Blame</a>? <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/2Chainz?src=hash">#2Chainz</a> 2 Chainz</p>
— DandiLioness (@DandiLioness) <a href="https://twitter.com/DandiLioness/status/555378731049426944">January 14, 2015</a>
</blockquote>
<p> </p>
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